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posted Monday, December 19, 2005 9:32 PM by robertvv :: 0 Comments

To be or not to be... Anti Virus solutions on a server

Not to be... (at least not always) Why? Simple, try to image, you are a real time mail server, doing 5000 I/O's per second and you're interrupted everytime by Anti Virus (AV) software when you try to write, or even worse try to read to and from a storage Read More
posted Thursday, December 15, 2005 8:09 AM by robertvv :: 0 Comments

Microsoft Cluster Service configuration backup/restore utility

Several weeks ago I wrote a small utility, based on MSDN sample code, to backup and restore Microsoft Cluster Service configuration database information. I experienced some problems with restoring information, so I wanted to be sure a backup existed that Read More

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posted Wednesday, December 14, 2005 10:36 PM by robertvv :: 0 Comments

Reading SQL Server logs using stored procedures

While I was searching for a way to determine the backup status of SQL databases, I came across the following Stored Procedure: "sp_readerrorlog". However, it's not documented in the SQL Servers books online. After some googling, I decided to use Read More

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posted Friday, August 05, 2005 8:15 AM by robertvv :: 0 Comments

System hang on a cluster

Last couple of days I have been setting up and tuning Windows Server 2003 clusters. When performing the various fail-over tests as part of a test plan, one of the cluster nodes suddenly experienced a complete system hang. This happened when I tried to Read More
posted Sunday, July 03, 2005 5:30 PM by robertvv :: 0 Comments

IE's favorites disappear

It happened to me several times now, that when working with IE my favorites suddenly disappear. The solution to this is very simple, but I keep forgetting it so I decided to write it down. The problem with the disappearing favorites is, is that Read More

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posted Friday, July 01, 2005 8:54 PM by robertvv :: 0 Comments

Changing the Windows XP Search Companion to look like Windows 2000 Search

I don't know about you, but the Windows XP Search Companion annoys me a lot. I like the look and feel of the Windows 2000 Search option a lot better. If you want to change the XP Search Companion to to look like the Windows 2000 search option, execute Read More

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posted Friday, July 01, 2005 8:47 PM by robertvv :: 0 Comments

Remotely Enable Remote Desktop on Windows Server 2003 using the registry

  With Remote Desktop on Windows XP Professional or Windows Server 2003 (in Windows 2000 Advanced Server, this feature was called Terminal Services in Remote Administration Mode), you can have access to a Windows session that is running on your Read More

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posted Friday, July 01, 2005 8:43 PM by robertvv :: 0 Comments

Remotely Enable Remote Desktop on Windows Server 2003 using WMI

  wmic /node:"Computer Name (FQDN)" /USER:"username" RDTOGGLE WHERE ServerName="Computer Name" CALL SetAllowTSConnections 1   Read More

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